单词 | to keep nix |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep nix P2. to keep nix: to keep watch or lookout. See nit n.3 and sense A. ΚΠ 1869 Young Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 229 ‘Keeping nix’ was, in other words, keeping a look out that no person might catch us. a1897 T. E. Brown Coll. Poems (1900) 336 Keepin' nix, And list'nin' for each other's picks. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 47 Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming. a1966 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 324 Keep nix while the new lodger's letters are being steamed. 1990 B. Roche Poor Beast in Rain i. ii. 26 You were outside keepin' nix. < as lemmas |
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